If you placed a red blood cell in a hypotonic solution, you would predict that its volume would ____ while the solute concentration in its cytoplasm would ____.

A. increase, increase
B. increase, decrease
C. decrease, increase
D. decrease, decrease
E. decrease, not change


B. increase, decrease

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